Breaking News: Colbert to Succeed Letterman as Host of the ‘Late Show’ on CBS
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Breaking News: Colbert to Succeed Letterman as Host of the ‘Late Show’ on CBS
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— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 10, 2014
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What a boring choice.
One note unfunny hack to replace one note unfunny hack.
You know you're old when you remember when Letterman was sorta-funny.
Colbert has his "thing"... he's going to do some other "thing?" Or is he just moving his own show to a later time slot on a different channel?
Meh. He should do okay. Synova I imagine he'll leave his shtick behind.
One pro-democrat le3ftist for another.
I'd have an opinion, but I watch almost nothing on the cable channels.
When I watch TV, I purchase specific sports events or movies on a subscription basis.
The remainder of my viewing is done on the internet.
Ha! Bumhug.
No wait, that outburst came out wrong, bah humbug.
I'm bored out of my mind already with all these. It causes me to think of other things. Like the guy who wrote James and the Giant Peach. When I saw it I said to myself, Hey Sus Christos, another peach story!
And it's the same deal as Japanese Peach Boy except with more bleak touches, more pathology, more animal and insect interaction, greater inner peach adventure, an obsession with America. And the whole time I was visualizing the vignettes in pop-uppery terms, imagining the scenes in paper using techniques I know, deciding which techniques for which scenes, and realizing, this is way too f'n bizarre.
It has very good scenes.
A boy suffers under the wardship of uncaring hostile relatives and encounters a man who gives him a sack of crocodile tongues to use in preparation of a potion, along with ten strands of his hair, to do something magical and escape his unhappy state. The boy stumbles and spills the tongues from the bag that wiggle into the ground like snakes at the base of a peach tree that suddenly grew incredibly large with a singularly huge peach bending a branch. The boy escapes his relatives seeking refuge inside the peach, big as a house, encountering insects inside. The branch breaks, the peach rolls down the hill and the boy and insects inside the peach and float away into the English Channel and by linked adventure, from the English Channel into the Atlantic, good enough right there for pop-uppery, where they are surrounded by sharks, better yet for pop-uppery, that attack the peach, even better, and seagulls swoop in for the pickings, a good unexpected menacing touch that does not apparently offer a way out, but the insects weave spider web ropes and silk worm twines and lasso the seagull's feet, fantastic imagery there, the whole flock lassoed lifts what remains of the peach into the air, away from the sharks and carries them aloft to New York. Where they are heros. Where everyone eats the peach. And everyone wants to be Jame's friend.
I could steal a few of those ideas.
But the whole time I wondered, why a peach?
Who even thinks of that?
Roald Dahl answers, "Originally it was a cherry, but peaches are bigger and squishier."
A marxist, a muslim and a homosexual walk into a bar.
Bartender: Yes President Obama, what'll it be?
That joke will NEVER be included in any Steven Colbert opening Late Show monolog, never ever. And that, boys and girls, is why he got the job.
You mean they couldn't have gotten a a gay, black woman into Kabballah who does nude scenes for children's television to replace him?
What about Diversity?
One more guy who nobody is going to watch. Who in their right mind thinks that this is a good idea.
Of course most of the other guys figure they don't want to be the guy that replaces the guy.
You want to be the guy who replaces the guy that replaces the guy.
Not that Letterman is the guy.
He is not even a guy.
He is a political construct.
Leftist misanthrope who sexually harasses his underlings but gets a pass from the feminazi's because he loves the baby killers.
Swapping one lefty for another lefty. Way to be edgy CBS.
We've got our star market analysts on the case, above. Noted: hosts with 1.3 million viewers, just for their political satire, should not be construed as successful.
Also noted: not having regressive political views makes you a bad entertainer.
Begone, Mr. Colbert! What makes you think you or Comedy Central or CBS can second-guess the rigorous market analytics of partisan central above? The arrogance of it! Begone! We want a right-wing or blandly centrist funny-man and won't rest until we find him, wherever he is!
Seriously, you guys are worse than Bruno Kirby in Good Morning Vietnam.
Another Lefty replacing another Lefty. And the President of CBS - who's a Lefty - likes it that way.
At Colbert won't be a bitter has-been who phones it in every night.
And he can't be any worse at interviews than Dave Letterman was.
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